Doodled - Floral Bookmark - Peerless WC

I was drawing a flower and the next thing I knew it turned into  bookmark size piece...
Size: 3.5" x 9"
Canal Paper Montreal St Armand using a Juice Up pen. Painted with Peerless watercolors

MC Jan/19 - Digi Quotemarks Bookmark - Coneflower - Love You

My turn on the Quietfire Digital blog and I'm continuing with Valentine's themed projects BIG GRIN - This one for my baby sister who loves reading.

I'm using a design element background stamp from Quietfire Design ("Crackle Background")

And am using a few of Suzanne's electronic files available on Silhouette onLine store. Click images below to purchase. 

   

 Click on bookmark image to see all the details and descriptions or click HERE to go to my website. Enjoy

MC June/18 - Coffee Cup - ECD Hugs - Coffee, Friends & Bookmark

I just got the newest stamps from Suzanne - coffee and tea related and a couple others.... LOVE THEMI'm using an A Way With Words dies  "Hugs"  from Elizabeth Craft Designs, also available on Quietfire Design HERE

I 'm also using a bunch of the newest stamps and a couple from a previous release from Quietfire Design  ("But First, Coffee" 8pce set); ("Tea" 7pce set); ("Tulips" design element); ("Life Doesn't Have To Be Wonderful to Be Perfect"); "Crackle Background") 

 

And on the inside using a clear stamp set from Quietfire Design "Birthday Collection" 8pce set also available on Elizabeth Craft Designs HERE

Click on any card image to see all the details and descriptions etc. Enjoy

And it fits for these challenges:
Cupcake Inspiration  #448 colors yellow, pink & green
MMM Challenge  #73 resist embossing
Tuesday Throwdown  #396 tag (since it has a hole and ribbon and is a bookmark, I think it can also qualify as a tag...)
Fab n Funky Challenge  #398 sunny colors
The Paper Shelter #343 ribbons, buttons or pearls
JW Scrap Shack  #237 anything goes
All Sorts Challenge  #471 ladies night out. (what's better than friends and coffee)
We Love To Create  #9 anything mixed media

Bookmarks Bri

A few days ago I uploaded a Jumbo Tulip birthday card for my baby sister (not so baby...). She had sent me an email a few days before asking for another bookmark... She sent me a scan of the one she had, which she said she used 24/7 (she loves reading). She said she has a bunch of other bookmarks, but only used mine because I had made it for her, but also said it was falling apart.... She's such a nice sister. I forgot I had given her one. I had made it in 2004, so I think that's a really well used bookmark.

So I made her a few more... I was only going to make 1 or 2, but as you can see I got carried away - again.

The Zentangle one was the first one I made and uses Quietfire Design Nature QuoteMarks on the back. I new I was going to hot laminate it and didn't want to waste part of a laminating pouch, and that's when I started making the rest BIG GRIN. There aren't enough small sized quotes I could use, so created the backs with quotes from my database in an Excel program and then printed it out. So when she needs a lift, she can read the backs.

Zentangle: I used a Zig Writer for outlining and a Pentel pocket brush pen to color in the black areas.

 
 These were the next ones I made, using a word that was in one of the quotes.
Poppy: Stamped (Local King Rubber "Poppy2) with Versafine Black Onyx and colored with Derwent Inktense watercolor pencils, and a waterbrush. The sky was colored with Prisma colored pencils.

Sunflowers: (Flourishes "Gerbera Daisies") I didn't have a sunflower stamp, so used the daisy stamp and colored with the Derwent pencils in bright yellow to mimic a sunflower... Sky colored with the Prisma pencils.

Strawberries: I digitally printed that onto copy paper and used a Chart Pak pen to transfer the image to my cardstock bookmark then with the same Derwent and Prisma pencils. Stamped the birdhouse (Flourishes "Friendly Reminders").

Sabrina: And then I was in a mood to do a very personal bookmark for her. Drew in the letters of her name and then just drew out lines, Colored with the Derwent and did some doodling within the letters.

Click on any image to see a larger version. Enjoy

And it fits for these challenges:
Kaboodle Doodles  #161 Anything but a card
MIM Challenge  #85 Nature

MC Feb/12 - Bookmark - Daffodils

So the challenge on the Flourishes blog (#157) is to make a bookmark... I created an origami corner to hook on to my page - fold a square piece of paper in half on both diagonals. Fold in half on 1 horizontal. Push the horizontal line inwards to create point - and then adhered the heart to it. Adhered the under flaps together.

bookmark on my hand bound journal

Lightly traced the shape of my largest heart (Spellbinders Nested Hearts) onto my 110# white cardstock. Stamped the quote (Quietfire Design) with Versafine Black Onyx. Stamped the Daffodils (Flourishes "A Year of Flowers 1" set #SS092) also with the black. Placing them both in the heart shape, then die cut it. Sponged some blue around the edges and in the design of the die. Colored the flower in with watercolors. Sponged more blue onto the origami corner before adhering the heart. Left the back of the book mark uncolored.

Click on images to see larger views.

It also fits for these challenges:
Tuesday Throwdown  #86 use blue
Crafty Creations  #158 Fancy Folds
Crafty Purple Frog  Yellow & Green optional daffodil
Fussy & Fancy  #57 use text that more than 2 words

The rest of the Bookmarks

So these are the rest of the bookmarks that I've made for our Guild's sale. Click on any image to see details for that batch.

The first batch has a Gesso/Tissue paper technique on the backs of them. The next batch is a weaving and misc batch, and the last batch is done on watercolor paper.
Most use a Quietfire Design quote stamp besides my written words.
Enjoy

MC Aug - Canvas Bookmarks

Our Guilds Show and Sale fund raiser for this year in November, will be bookmarks. So I got a head start on them. These are some canvas ones painted with acrylic paints, hand lettered on front and rubber stamped on back with Quietfire Design Friendship Quote Marks stamps.

Click on pic to see backs, larger images and details etc. Enjoy
I'll soon have some of the cardstock bookmarks I made too.

They also fit a few challenges:
CInspirations #75 Make a bookmark
Fiskarettes Use Fabric (2nd submission)
Cuttlebug Challenge Something to do with books and reading
Gingersnap Creations #66 use paint
Pixie Dust Studio #38 Stitching
Stamp Challenges Anything School related (can't have the kids turning down the page to mark their place...)
All Sorts Challenge #67 Garden or Park inspiration (nothing better than sitting on a bench & reading a good book)

MC Apr - True Friend Ribbon Flower

Just learned this ribbon flower today and really liked it. Easy to make and very effective. Will make more... Butternut Sage blog

So after making it, had to use it - right?? Used a bunch of Quietfire Design rubber quotes.


It also covers a bunch of challenges
There She Goes #51 A tag with either Paper Piercing or stitching
A Spoonful of Sugar #100 Happy Birthday
AI Factory #33 Anything but a card (The bookmark/tag
Fab n Funky #20 Get it all out (Have had this stamp set for ages and never used this stamp for that set - it's really a beautiful stamp)
Little Red Wagon #25 Ruffles
The Play Date Cafe #26 Color Combo Silver or Gray, Clay, Turquoise & Cream
Practical Scrappers Floss, Fibers & Ribbons
Prairie Fairy Fridays Eyelets & String
Stamp Scrap & Doodle Bows, Buttons & Bling
Magical Crafts #13 Something for the girls

Click on card to see details and descriptions. Enjoy

CBH Challenge for Nov 18th

Another week's gone by. Boy they seem to slip away faster and faster these days. Anyway, this week's CBH Challenge was to create and Xmas themed tag. Well I just got my order of Quietfire Design Christmas rubber stamps (a full sheet), so I had to at least use one... but I used two.

The tag is on a Heritage red toned cardstock. I rubber stamped the holly leaf pattern on the front using the Glue Essentials pad and composition gold leaf (ps this needs to be a very glue saturated pad, I usually reink my pad for each new session of stamping). I then dry embossed the veins onto each leaf.
The lettering is done with a parallel pen and sumi ink, then shadow outlined with a Sanford Uniball gold gel pen (words: Bookmark me... I'm your friend). I iused my 50% Michael's coupon today and bought a Martha Stewart Checker Board border punch. I think it has a lot of potential and this is one of them. Punched the bottom of the card and then threaded gold thread through each hole and did a fringe border. Used the same gold thread as a hanger and added some gold colored beads.

The back is rubber stamped and gold embossed for most of the words, and white embossed for the word "Snow".

Bookmarks

I finished a bunch of bookmarks for our Guilds Xmas show. They sold well a couple years ago, so I thought I'd make another batch. All the chalks series are what I made. everything else in the gallery are from a few years ago. I thermal laminated them and added fibers and beads. So they are very durable as well as texturally pleasing. I know I'm always playing with the edge of my bookmark while i'm reading.

Also went to Michael's to use the 50% coupon. Picked up a pad of cardstock which I'll use in more Zutter journals. Also picked up a lower case and upper case Sizzix alphabet set. I tried it through my Cuttlebug and it works. But I would recommend using several layers of cardstock rather than a single layer to protect the clear plastic runner.